Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
| http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/google-closes-12-5-billion-deal-to-buy-motorola-mobility/ | (last visited May 24, 2012). Google has since said that of the $12.5B, $5.5 were | for patents, which is still a staggering sum.
No, it's not. It's actually a meager sum when you consider that they bought more than 17,000 active and 7,500 pending patents.
Google calculator tells me that's $265,000 for each patent, which is pretty cheap considering it supposed to cover the costs of the developers, patent fees, lawyers, etc.
Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 "Owning a smartphone: Technology's equivalent to learning to play chopsticks on the piano as a child and thinking you're a musician." (sent to me by a friend) _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
